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" In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. "

Ma Yansong

Today

Strong

Together

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" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

" I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too. "

" There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

Michael Tilson Thomas

Kind

Mean

Time

" The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. "

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" A house is a machine for living in. "

" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

American

Architecture

Living

" Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. "

Peter Zumthor

Architecture

Care

" I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. "

" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "

" I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. "

" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "

Antoni Gaudi

Color

Value

" Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. "

" As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. "

Nathaniel Kahn

Child

Kind

" Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. "

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" I treat my projects as art. "

" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

" People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it. "

" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. "

" Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. "

David Chipperfield

Architecture

Good

" To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. "

" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "

Zaha Hadid

Problem

Time

" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "